If you’ve got time for one in-depth, utterly fascinating and completely illuminating read this year, may I recommend Ulises Ali Mejias’ Networked Proximity (pdf 1.2MB).
The network as a map of interconnected elements or nodes has become a favored metaphor for describing a wide variety of social systems in our age. But the network is transitioning from being merely a way to describe social realities to serving as a model for organizing them… [from here]
A bloody impressive achievement.
Hi James,
Thanks for this article/book. I don’t have access to uni library research and my reading is mainly inspired by Creative Commons stuff which at times I don’t easily find by myself.
I hope things are going well for you.
cheers MArtin
…humph. I think we all need to become aware of th realities of “networks” that clearly this article/book seems to avoid addressing…see the
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/
entry entitled:
Research Note: When Economists Attack, Or Where Networks > Markets